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Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Calli - Feb 01, 2022 10:54:26 am PST #12656 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

tomato sauce, an onion (that is later removed), and butter?

Yes, I tried that one. It just wasn't what I was looking for in a spaghetti sauce. To my knowledge, there are no Italians in my heritage, and my home town was primarily 3rd generation Polish-Americans. (If you want me to fry up some kielbasa, I am all over it.) So most of my sauce attempts have been from online recipes.

Tonight I'm taking my noodles from another part of the world and trying to fancify ramen. I have my soft-boiled egg ready to go.


Dana - Feb 01, 2022 11:04:45 am PST #12657 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I've made that Marcella Hazan recipe before. It's pretty good, and I don't really like tomatoes, so the fact that it's mostly tomato is pretty impressive for me.

I'm sorry, Steph. Everything happens all at once and it's exhausting.


-t - Feb 01, 2022 11:59:38 am PST #12658 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I remember bon bon posting about that recipe. I did try that one, and yum, but my usual process is to follow the guidelines my mom taught me that starts with garlic and ground beef and adds tomato paste and tomato sauce or tomatoes and wine and whatever else sounds good and I have and the herbs that seem appealing at the moment (Grandpa was Italian, but I don't think this sauce comes from his family, although who knows, maybe it did, but the family lore is that they were not so much down with the tomato-based sauces). Not that I have done that in a while, but I think I still remember how.


Steph L. - Feb 01, 2022 12:10:15 pm PST #12659 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Post Deleted!


Steph L. - Feb 01, 2022 12:12:21 pm PST #12660 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

^^^^That was not a dramatic post that I decided to delete because of its contents. I literally had just scrolled to the bottom of the screen so quickly that I blew past the "First"/"Last"/etc buttons, saw the "Post Message" button below the (EMPTY) post post, and clicked it.

In my defense, I didn't know we could post empty posts. Further in my defense, I am so goddamn tired. Plus loopy on migraine meds. I want to finish editing this article and go to bed until Memorial Day.


-t - Feb 01, 2022 12:20:05 pm PST #12661 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sorry you are tired and loopy, but I'm glad to know what happens if we post an empty box!


-t - Feb 01, 2022 12:20:29 pm PST #12662 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And I appreciate the explanation so I don't have to wonder what I missed


Laura - Feb 01, 2022 12:43:19 pm PST #12663 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I've posted empty posts a number of times because my mind interprets the Post Message button as Read New. Then I edit the thing to say some nonsense.


Dana - Feb 01, 2022 12:46:59 pm PST #12664 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

That was not a dramatic post that I decided to delete because of its contents.

Don't lie, you know you were going to start the great Tomato Sauce War of 2022.


EpicTangent - Feb 01, 2022 12:49:55 pm PST #12665 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Ahem...The Great Tomato Sauce KERFUFFLE of 2022.